Democratic Socialist Party of Japan

The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) was a social democratic political party in Japan that was active from 1960 to 1994. The party was founded as a splintergroup of the Japan Socialist Party, and it adhered to democratic socialism from 1960 to 1969, when it realigned towards moderate social democracy. The party supported the construction of a welfare state, opposed totalitarianism, and strongly backed the Japan-US alliance. The party joined the New Frontier Party in 1994.